The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-26
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

THE son of Governor Ames, of Massachusetts,
is hard at work in shovelshop, learning his
trade.
GENERAL SHERMANs position seems to be
about follows: Let me kiss the Nations girls
and care not what happens to brother John.
LET w. T. Sherman command the Grand
Army of the Republic, and he cares not how
often his brother is elected President of the
United States.
A GLASGOW merchant asked Queen Victoria
to accept jubilee gift of cheese weighing i've
tons and made from the milk of $500 Canadian
cows, but she declined.
FIRST Cent wonder why that man sits in
the bow of the rowboat, while the lady sits in
the stern. I'd get closer than that Second
Gent-Perhaps she is his wife,
Boston Commercial Bulletin: If you want
tew git at the circumference of man examine
him among folks; but if you want tew git at his
aktuai diameter, measure him at his fireside.
SoMERvILLE (Mass.) Journal The way to be
happy is to be good to other people. You want
to do your level best to convince other people of
this. 1t is we'll that they should make them
selves happy By being good to you
DEAR, impulsive. passionate Ella Wheeler
Wilcox says she loves the hustle in large city
Yes, love, it takes large city to make tho
satisfies one of the real bang up kind
A MAN named Poquelin de Moliere, now in
Paris, claims to be a descendant of Louis XIII
He ia, he says, a son Of the Due De Berry whose
ancestor. Louis XIV was. he claims, brother
OF Moliere. Who accordingly, was a natural son
of Louis KILL
ELIJAH SMITH, the Oregon railway king is
eccentric in his habit of eating. He wants the
hast bra fast hat ho ND re in
every days work with his stomach supplied
for at least ten hours. He takes no lunch and
doesn't care what he has for dinner.
REV. F. c. 1GLEHART, formerly Of Evansville
pastor Of the Delaware-avenue Methodist Epis-
opal Church. Buffalo, N. Y, has been released
by the trustees to accept the passionate of the
Central Methodist Episcopal Church. of Newark
N. j.. which he will assume On May1.
WHEN Frederick William, Crown Prince of
Germany, was married to the Princess Royal Of
England (1e5Sl. Leopold, King Of Belgium, sent
the bride dress which cost $40, 000 and was of
such delicate texture that it could be incosed in
small ivory box only large enough to hold a
pack of cards.
IT is rumored that the London Times is to
come down" to penny. This shows the prog
ress of journalism. In Dickenss time the re-
porters of the old and wellestabllshed papers
would not sit at the same table with Dickens
and his coadiutors who began the revolution ia
newspaperdom of the largest city in the world
THE Greek department of Harvard College
will be crippled after this year. by the loss of
assistant Professors Croswell and Dyer, both of
whom have resigned their positions Professor
Croswell will assume the control of girls
school in New York, at salary of So 900 a year.
and Professor Dyer will devote himself to liter
airy pursuits.
THE old Unitarian Church OF Geary street,
San Francisco, will soon be sold, and the congre-
CATION will move to a new building further up
town. The tomb OF Thomas Starr King, the
preacher whose eloquence brought funds for
the old structure, will also be removed, and
will occupy conspicuous position in the new
church yard.
IT was but few nights after Wendell Phillips
took up his residence in the house so long his
home in Boston. when all those who had ears to
hear were saluted by the sound of hand organ
playing the then popular airs of the day. Fair
weather or foul winter or summer with the ex-
ception of Sunday evenings, this practice was
| for years kent up. Many of MIR Philips's hostile
| neighbors looked upon it rs a nuisance. and
| took come steps toward having it suppressed:
but, on its becoming known that it was gratifi-
cation to Mr. Phiilipss invalid wife, all hostility
was withdrawn.
| Mrs LOGAN is having an interesting dispute
with the officials OF the Bureau of Engraving
| and Printing at Washington. She was requested
to send them photograph of the late Senator,
| to be used in the book Of eulogies delivered in
| Congress after the death of her husband. The
| photograph came in due time. and the officials
| were astonished to ind that it represented him
| as he appeared twenty years ago. Mrs. Logan
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